With three weeks to go before the game hits store shelves, pre-orders for Halo 2 have reached 1.5 million in the US alone.

I can see it now, dust blowing across the scorched earth as low overcast clouds rush across the yellowish sky. Everything takes up a brownish hue on the ground as the color of the sky reflects off the arid terrain. The field is littered with bodies of dead geeks, they are scattered in all directions as far as the eye can see.

A broken banner lies underneath one of the dead geek captains. Words are written on the torn banner: "Master Chief will mop the floor with Gordon!" Next to the dead geek captain lies the lifeless body of one of the dead soldiers of the opposing army, an orange letter lambda is engraved in his plate mail...